Punctuating his jokes with under-the-breath commentary indicting his own punch lines, Jim Gaffigan slowly became a sensation, filling arenas and scoring hit records nearly a decade after he burst onto the scene in 2000 with a heavily promoted but short-lived sitcom (Welcome to New York). Mixing the grumpy modern cynicism of George Carlin with the neurotic self-deprecation of Woody Allen, Gaffigan riffs on hot pockets, Cinnabons, and other assorted cultural oddities, while constantly taking pokes at his own paleness, his Indiana roots, and any other affable self-doubt that captures his fancy. Wikipedia
Punctuating his jokes with under-the-breath commentary indicting his own punch lines, Jim Gaffigan slowly became a sensation, filling arenas and scoring hit records nearly a decade after he burst onto the scene in 2000 with a heavily promoted but short-lived sitcom (Welcome to New York). Mixing the grumpy modern cynicism of George Carlin with the...
